Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Whitefish Bay officials received more detail about an $11 million plan to temporarily store rain water in a Cahill Park basin, while adding larger sewer pipes and catch basins downstream.
Cahill Park would be lowered as much as eight to nine feet in some areas to temporarily hold rain water under a proposal presented by the village's engineering consultants Monday night. The concept of a storm water retention facility was presented last year as a way to reduce surface flooding in the area. The village hired Crispell Snyder later in the year to design a storm water management plan in the area, which is roughly bordered by Ardmore Avenue on the east, Henry Clay Street on the north, Shoreland Avenue on the west and Glendale Avenue on the south. The plan would not affect the tennis courts or playground equipment on the west end of the park, but would lower the western portion of the park to hold rain water. The northern end of …
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The two inspection projects will identify which sanitary laterals and which downspouts are unnecessarily burdening the village's sanitary sewer system with rain water.
Whitefish Bay trustees agreed to move forward with recommendations aimed at eliminating rain water from the sanitary sewer system through a village-wide downspout disconnection program and a lateral replacement program on the south side of the village. Cameras used to identify leaky laterals The private sanitary sewer lateral inspection and replacement program will start in an area of 390 homes between Glendale Avenue and Hampton Road, from Diversey Boulevard to Bartlett Avenue. The televised inspection could begin as soon as this summer. By televising the sewer lines, the village will find out which laterals need to be replaced, which need to be re-lined and which laterals need no repair. The cost of partially lining a lateral is …
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Whitefish Bay trustees will analyze stormwater and sanitary sewer options at future meetings.
Whitefish Bay could end up paying between $71.1 million to $93.5 million for repairs to village sewer systems, depending upon the approach village officials decide upon at future meetings. The village received more than 1,000 reports of basement backups during the intense rains of July 2010, either from stormwater unable to enter the storm sewer system or excessive clear water in the sanitary sewer system, which created basement backups. Given the scale of upgrading the aging infrastructure that led to the flooding, Village Engineer Dan Naze said the village is at the beginning of a trail that not many communities have traveled down. "Other than some isolated communities like Ann Arbor and some others, at least in this area, this type of …
tom sheramn
5:06 pm on Thursday, June 14, 2012
WHY NOT FLOOD CAHILL ABOVE GROUND SAY AS IN LIKE AN ABOVE GROUND POOLS? ONE WOULD NEED PUMPS TEMPORARY WALLS WHICH COULD BE 4X8 PLYWOOD SHEETS DROPPED IN A RUBBERIZED FOOTING WITH SLOTS SUPPORTED BY TENT LIKE STAKES AND A ROPE FROM FROM THE INSIDE IN REACTION TO FROCE OF WATER ON THE INSIDE. HOLES COULD BE PUT IN THE WALLS AT THE 1-4 FOOT LEVELS. AND PLUGGED AS THE WATER RISES more ›